Housing and Homelessness
AB 2498: California Housing Security Act
One of the most cost effective and compassionate ways of reducing the number of Californians experiencing homelessness is to empower people who are currently housed to stay in their homes. This bill will increase housing security by providing rent subsidies to low income former foster youth, older adults, adults with disabilities, people experiencing unemployment or homelessness, and recently incarcerated individuals, without regard to an individual's immigration status.
AB 2525: Los Angeles RV Lot Program: Facilitating the Transition to Housing
AB 2525 will assist the City of Los Angeles (the City) – and other governmental agencies – in providing services to people experiencing homelessness by streamlining the City's ability to lease property from the California Department of Transportation at a reduced rate to store recreational vehicles (RVs) while the former inhabitants receive services to relieve homelessness.
AB 2650: Licensed Adult Residential Care Facilities: Data Collection
Licensed adult residential care facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly play a vital role in the state's housing response, providing housing, food, medication management, and support to vulnerable populations. AB 2650 requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to collect and publicly report comprehensive data, including the number of facilities serving individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or who are receiving public benefits, the number of residents in these facilities who have been diagnosed with SMI, the number of beds these facilities hold, and more.
AB 2477: Foster Care: Cash Savings
Empowers youth transitioning to adulthood from foster care to grow the best financial safety net possible. Specifically, this bill updates state law to clarify that young adults have the ability to accumulate cash savings while in foster care.
AB 1335: Regional Housing and Sustainability Planning
AB 1335 requires planning and reporting for sustainable housing development to be more transparent and makes clarifying changes so that housing and sustainability goals under the RHNA and SCS programs are better aligned. The bill will incentivize sustainable housing near transit to reduce our reliance on cars.
Retail Theft
AB 2943: California Retail Theft Reduction Act
This bill is intended to advance balanced, effective, and meaningful solutions that address the problem of retail crime while preserving criminal justice reforms that have been effective at keeping our communities safe. Each element of the bill can be enacted by the Legislature and signed into law without voter approval. The bill creates a new crime to target ‘serial' retail thieves, advancing a key recommendation from the Governor's office; clarifies the intent standard for aggregating charges to reach grand theft; expands the tools for police to arrest and retain custody of those engaging in retail crime repeatedly; and helps get at the root cause of theft by expanding the use of diversion and rehabilitative programs with the possibility of early discharge. Additional language is being finalized on the following pieces to be added to AB 2943: protecting businesses from having nuisance actions brought against them simply for reporting retail crime; addressing the role of online marketplaces; and increasing data transparency from large retailers.
Climate and Environmental Protection
AB 1176 – Requiring Local Climate Action and Electrification Plans
AB 1176 requires local governments to adopt a Climate Action Electrification Element with strategies and goals in their General Plans to meet the needs of residents, visitors, employees, and businesses in their communities. The bill requires consideration of and planning for on-street electric vehicle charger corridors and electrification funding strategies for disadvantaged communities.
AB 2208: Offshore Wind Energy Projects Bond Act
Offshore wind energy is critical to the State's ability to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2045 and has the potential to create tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the State. California must invest in the industry domestically in order to achieve this potential. AB 2208 presents to voters an act authorizing $1 billion dollars in bond funds for seaport infrastructure improvements to facilitate offshore wind energy projects off the California coast.
AB 3006: Offshore Wind Infrastructure Plan
This bill requires the Governor's five-year infrastructure plan to include an assessment of funding needs (local, state, federal, and private) for offshore wind port infrastructure.
LGBTQ+ Civil Rights and Health Care
AB 2442: Expedited Medical Licensure for Gender-Affirming Care
In response to growing efforts to restrict access to health care for transgender people across the country, AB 2442 ensures that licensure applications for providers of gender-affirming care are prioritized to reinforce a robust network of providers and timely access for patients who may need to come to California for care.
AB 2258: Enhanced Consumer Protections for Preventive Care
This bill would codify federal guidance requiring health plans and health insurers to cover services that are integral to the delivery of recommended preventive services without out-of-pocket cost.
AB 2613: Jacqueline Marie Zbur Rare Disease Advisory Council
AB 2613 will create a Rare Disease Advisory Council (RDAC) in California – created in the memory of the author's sister, Jacqueline Marie Zbur – which will serve as a vital platform to amplify the voices of millions of Californians grappling with rare diseases and will guide the Legislature in supporting the rare disease community. This RDAC is created in the memory of Jaqueline Marie Zbur, the author's sister, who endured a three year battle with ALS – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease – and inspired the author to seek public office in part to address the significant challenges of people grappling with rare diseases.
Gun Safety
AB 2907: Criminal Protective Orders: Gun Safety Protections
AB 2907 will enhance gun safety protections for people who have survived domestic violence, stalking, and elder abuse by imposing enhanced enforcement. The bill conforms the firearm surrender deadlines for criminal protective orders to the shorter firearm surrender periods for civil protective orders. Additionally, AB 2907 requires the arresting officer in domestic violence cases to question the arrestee, victim, and other household members (if applicable) about any firearms owned or possessed by the arrestee and to check the Automated Firearm System (AFS) to determine whether the arrestee owns or possesses any firearms prior to presenting the case to the prosecuting attorney for filing.
AB 2917: Hate-Based Gun Violence Prevention Act
This bill updates and refines California's nation-leading GVRO law to draw the civil court's attention to a broader set of risk factors in the court's analysis of whether to issue a GVRO - including threats of violence made against individuals or groups protected by California's hate crimes law and threats of violence to advance political objectives. It also updates various statutes to codify the ability of city and county attorneys pursuing GVROs to access criminal history information.